[Magdalen] The Donald.
Lesley de Voil
lesleymdv at gmail.com
Sun Jul 26 22:54:13 UTC 2015
I love the word "blowie", an Ockerism made by the Aussie <Grin>
inclination to domestify anything by adding "ee" or "ie," you know, as
in "Geez, youse kids, shut that bl**dy screen door before you let the
blowies in!"
Regards
Lesley de Voil
On 7/27/15, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> I learned a new word today --- "bloviate". This was used by an article
> excerpted from the Des Moines, IA USA "Register". the term was used by
> the paper to describe the campaign technique of Donald Trump, stumping
> Iowa. It means to speak or write verbosely and windily. Later, the same
> article refers to Trump as a "blowhard". I guess they both mean about the
> same thing.
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> I am reminded of Charles DeGaulle ("Le Grand Charles") late French
> leader who famously was quoted as saying that he "loved Germany." in fact
> he "loved Germany so much" he "was happy there are two of them" (East
> and West Germany).
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> Well, I just love Donald Trump. I like him so much that I hope he decides
> to create his own political party and run for President as an Independent.
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> David S.
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